I’ve been away for the week ripping up Fernie. Having grown up here I am all to familiar with the Skier vs Snowboarder mentality around here. For the balance of my life I’ve sat on the skier side of the argument, especially here where there is so much traversing on a deep pow day boarders just get left behind.

With meg in town, and me trying to get more days in on my pass I decided to give snowboarding a try, and sacrafice a pow day to my board. Turns out, it’s crazy fun.

Granted I fell more yesterday than in probably the last decade of skiing, once i figured out how to float the board on the snow, I started to really enjoy my self.

So my suggestion to you is to go out on a the next big pow day, and just give it a try. It was a blast.

.joe out.

Also you can read my report, and see some photos form fernie at

http://blogs.fernie.com/localsreport/2009/03/04/fernies-skiing-like-whistler/